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At Wiscon this year I attended a panel about librarians. There’s no surprise there. The connection between avid readers and …

Reading about conservatism and personality is like watching a slow motion car crash. You wish it could be stopped or would just end, …

Random fact generators are great. Via Chrononautic log I found this Bruce Schneier fact generator. A few refreshes produced these …

One of the topics that has been at the top of my mind over the last few months of summer has been learning communities. Universities, …

A confluence of recent readings have reintroduced me to some -archies I was familiar with and introduced some that were new to me. …

To the small number of people who might be reading this. I apologize for my loss of control on Thursday. Sometimes there’s just …

I made a mistake tonight. I turned on the radio to listen to the news about the foiled terrorist attack discovered in the United …

I was sitting this afternoon in the coffee shop at Borders. There were about a dozen other people sitting in the shop with me, some of …

Charlie Stross gets things going with a post about the dissipated habits of current science fiction. Chad Orzel says not so fast, you …

Among the many writing projects that I’ve considered pursuing was a series of essays based on gerunds, in English these are nouns …